I've been using the new Maps for a few months since it appeared in the first beta builds. I live in Sydney, Australia and the search struggles to find places. It's not so bad if you put in the entire address, but a search for a store or location regularly returns nothing.
I've noticed that this has been improving lately. When it first came out a search for "Apple Store Chatswood" (2km from my work) would return stores in the USA. Now it returns the correct destination.
It's still not a trustworthy source of directions and I regularly have to use Google Maps via the browser.
So while this is very frustrating, I can see it improving so am not too worried long term.
Mind you if Google Maps was an App in the Store I'd buy it asap.
I've noticed that this has been improving lately. When it first came out a search for "Apple Store Chatswood" (2km from my work) would return stores in the USA. Now it returns the correct destination.
It's still not a trustworthy source of directions and I regularly have to use Google Maps via the browser.
So while this is very frustrating, I can see it improving so am not too worried long term.
Mind you if Google Maps was an App in the Store I'd buy it asap.